Blocked.com alternatives

jh

Does anyone have experience with any Blocked.com (cheaper) alternatives? I want to block whole countries, proxies, known bad IPs, bots etc.

Bruce

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/block-entier-country-using-iptables/

jh

Thanks, Bruce. That's roughly what I'm doing at the moment. I'm looking for something more complete though because right now I'm playing catchup to bots etc.

Traffic

Countries: https://github.com/IvanGuardado/Nginx-Country-Block

Bots: http://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads/ & https://www.projecthoneypot.org/httpbl_api.php

Proxies: http://check.getipaddr.net/

For anything else I'm sure there's a RBL you can check against. For example, you can check if the client is on a residential network with that.

jh

@Traffic: better but it would be good if the database could be locally cached

Traffic

@jhadley said:
Traffic: better but it would be good if the database could be locally cached

What's to stop you from doing so? I'm not going to code a solution for you - I just pointed you to the resources your developer needs

jh

Traffic said: What's to stop you from doing so? I'm not going to code a solution for you - I just pointed you to the resources your developer needs

I'm aware of how to use those resources and cache them. It's an option. From what I gather about Blocked.com though (I might be wrong), the actual database sits on your server. This will of course be faster than having to rely on calling a URL somewhere else, even if it's only called once per visit.

cassa

ASN's: https://www.qwdsa.com/converse/threads/asn-blocklist.45/

Traffic

@jhadley said:
From what I gather about Blocked.com though (I might be wrong), the actual database sits on your server.

If you pay them $12000/year, they'll give you the database, yes ( https://www.blocked.com/datafeed.php ). Otherwise the only thing that's local are the already made requests (cached data) and the GeoIP.